xxix, 214 pages : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-203) and index

Introduction: "Street lit[erature] in America past and present" / Keenan Norris -- Street literature in America past and present: "What is African-American literature?" / Gerald Early ; Gang wars : the academy vs. the streets / Kemeshia Randle -- Early street lit, 1950s-1970s: Whose mean streets? : Donald Goines, Iceberg Slim, and the black noir aesthetic / Bonnie Rhee Andreyeyev ; (Re)writing the "bad nigger" hero in Robert Beck's Pimp / Dennis L. Winston ; A conversation with David Bradley : on Philadelphia negroes, pseudo-sociology, South Street, and the life narrative of Malcolm X / Keenan Norris -- Contemporary street lit, 1990s and 2000s: Saratoga Avenue / Arisa White ; The history, power and graffiti art of Brazilian hip-hop / Jaqueline Lima Santos and Ana Lucia Silva Souza ; gun(n) / Arisa White ; Comparing the available female roles and the social contexts of Sula and The coldest winter ever / Keenan Norris ; In their own words : street lit, code-meshing, and linguistic diversity / Nikia Chaney ; Crucial churches / Tristan Acker ; The art of storytellin' : hip hop music and its cousin, street lit / Khalid White ; Street literature : a contextualization, historiography and personal narrative / Gerald Early -- Enigmas / Sterling Warner ; Colson Whitehead's Zone one : post-apocalyptic zombies take over Manhattan in the age of nostalgia, despair, and consumption / Kimberly Fain ; The method, madness and marketing of street lit / Latoya Peterson ; A point west of Mount San Bernardino / Juan Delgado ; Stories we might as well tell : a conversation with Lynel Gardner / Keenan Norris

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